wtf? Wrote:
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> nope Wrote:
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> > But we're ready for anyone now and it's
> completely
> > legal!
>
> actually no any booby trap with the intent to maim
> or kill is illegal in most jurisdictions including
> all of those in northern virginia.
>
>
Restatement of Torts Sec. 85: "...A
> possessor of land cannot do indirectly and by a
> mechanical device that which, were he present, he
> could not do immediately and in person. Therefore,
> he cannot gain a privilege to install, for the
> purpose of protecting his land from intrusions
> harmless to the lives and limbs of the occupiers
> or users of it a mechanical device whose only
> purpose is to inflict death or serious harm upon
> such as may intrude..."
>
> From Katko v. Briney 183 N.W.2d 657: The fact that
> the trespasser may be acting in violation of the
> law does not change the rule.
> In addition to civil liabilty, many jurisdictions
> hold the landowner criminally liable for serious
> injuries or homicide caused by spring guns and
> other set devices.
>
Too bad the police said it was legal. It's staying up. It goes on at a certain time, if someone is near my house around that time then they were clearly up to no good and deserve to get hurt or be killed.